STILL IN THE SADDLE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1085, 25 March 1911, Page 5

STILL IN THE SADDLE.

*•— —-- M. STOLYPIN'S RESIGNATION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyricht St. Petersburg, March 23. The eventful carter of M. Stolypin as Prime Minister of Russia is hot yet ended, for it is now announced that he has withdrawn his resignation from tho Council of Empire, and will retain tho Premiership. In consequence of tho rejection by tho Council of Empire of the Electoral Bill, M. Stolypin had tendered his resignation to tho Tsar a few days ago. It was at first stated that his Majesty had refused to accept it, but 011 the following day announcement was made that the resignation had been accepted and a new Prime Minister appointed in the person of M. Kokovstoff, Minister for Finance. The Electoral Bill, over which the crisis arose, represented another step in the Russificaticn of Poland. By dividing tho constituencies according to nationalities it was intended to transfer the balance of power in Zemstvos, or Provincial Councils, of Western Russia from tho Poles to the Russians. INTRIGUERS AT WORK. Berlin, March 23. Tho St. Petersburg correspondent of the newspaper "Lokal Anzeiger" says that MM. Trepoff and Durnovoj whoso intrigues caused the temporary defeat of M. Stolypin (Russian Prime Minister), will henceforth bo excluded from tho Council of the Eirpire. M. Stolypin's policy has been the subject of the keenest controversy. The part he played in the suppression of tho second Duma has been much criticised, but tho severest of his critics has had to admit the extraordinary difficulty of the role he has had to play in stamping out the. revolutionary movement, without surrendering entirely to the reactionaries. By means of a moderate policy, M. Stolypin has endeavoured to preserve something of the Constitution, which, though shorn of its original breadth, still constitutes the main hope of a Russian ! democracy. Peter Arkazhevieh Stolypin was born in 1863, and is thus only 18 years of age. Tho son of a popular general, ho had a brilliant career at tho University of St. Petersburg, and, after graduating in 1881, obtained an appointment at the Ministry of th 6 Interior. After two years ho was transferred to tho Ministry of Agriculture, whero he remained another two years, then retiring for a time into private life, and devoting himself to the management of his estate in Kovno Government. He served as Marshal of the District Nobility, President of the Arbitration Board, and Justice of the Peace, and in 1899 became Marshal of tho Provincial Nobility. He was appointed ViceGovernor of Grodno in 1902, Governor of Saratoif in 1903, and from Saratolf he was called to St. Petersburg,. to take up tho portfolio of the Interior. Ho was one of the few Ministers to whom tho Duma was ready to listen. When M. Goremykin resigned in 1900, M. Stolypin succecdcd him as Premier, and was thanked by tho Tsar for his,services, and appointed a member of £lie Council of the Empire on January 13, 1907. In 1908 he was' given the rank ot State Secretary.' His life has several times been attempted.